"Virtue" is a category;..." I do not know what meaning you intended to convey here.
The capital 'V' could be the result of beginning a sentence
or
it could be reification - the raising of virtue to the level of a moral absolute.
I have learned to beware terms with capital letters; Morality, Altruism, Truth, Spirit, Noble... each of these gets used by those who adopt a Neo-Platonist theory of mind.
[In Plato's parable of the Cave, mind is where the category of the universe intersects his (invented) category of Forms.]
It is simple enough to comprehend the 'Form of the Good' but it must remain an empty category because anything I try to put... (read 400 more words →)
"Virtue" is a category;..."
I do not know what meaning you intended to convey here. The capital 'V' could be the result of beginning a sentence or it could be reification - the raising of virtue to the level of a moral absolute.
I have learned to beware terms with capital letters; Morality, Altruism, Truth, Spirit, Noble... each of these gets used by those who adopt a Neo-Platonist theory of mind.
[In Plato's parable of the Cave, mind is where the category of the universe intersects his (invented) category of Forms.]
It is simple enough to comprehend the 'Form of the Good' but it must remain an empty category because anything I try to put... (read 400 more words →)